Tamirat Tola Wins the Beijing Marathon in the Fastest Time Seen on Chinese Roads
The Olympic champion ran 2:03:10 on Sunday, 3:56 under the course record, in the city that hosts the World Championships next September.
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Full Results: 2026 Amsterdam Marathon
Diriba broke the women’s course record by 40 seconds in the rain, and Berhanu came within three seconds of the men’s. Here are the top 10 finishers in both races.
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Full Results: 2026 Delhi Half Marathon
Matata took one second off the course record, and the 19-year-old Alemu won in only her second half-marathon. Here are the top 10 finishers in the international and Indian elite races.
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Kenenisa Bekele Will Race the Valencia Half Marathon a Month After Pulling Out of Berlin
The 44-year-old is on the elite entry list for Oct. 25, only weeks after an Achilles injury kept him out of the Berlin Marathon. It would be his first race since New York last November.
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Courtney Dauwalter Will Take Another Shot at the Olympic Trials Standard at CIM
The ultrarunner finished 1:55 outside the 2:37:00 women’s standard in Sacramento last December, and she lines up there again on Dec. 6 with a place at the 2028 Trials in St. Louis on the line.
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Toronto Waterfront Marathon Pace Calculator: Your Km-by-Km Race Plan
Enter your goal and corral, and get a pace for every kilometer of Toronto’s waterfront course, built from the splits of nearly 7,000 finishers and adjusted for race-day weather.
Michael Doyle
Washington High School Girls Walk Off a Cross-Country Course to Protest a Transgender Teammate
About half of Camas High School’s girls team stepped off the course and forfeited on Tuesday. The runner they object to started the season in boys’ races, and a Nov. 3 ballot measure would end her eligibility, though not until after the state championships.
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Two Former Champions Lead the Fields at the 2026 Delhi Half Marathon
Birhanu Legese, who won in 2015 and 2017, is going for a third title on Sunday. Irine Cheptai, the 2022 winner, comes back seven weeks after finishing second at the Sydney Marathon.
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A Runner’s $5,748 Chicago Marathon Bill Shows the Real Cost of a Major
A running coach’s itemized list of what he spent on the Chicago Marathon went viral this week. The $266 entry fee was less than 5 percent of it, while flights, an Airbnb and getting around the city came to almost half.
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